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Zee's Balanced Ship Refits

This mod aims to improve the Naval Ship Designer and Convert/Refit functionality of the game.
Man The Guns DLC is required.

There are 2 key changes made by this mod:

• First, the Naval XP requirements to design and swap modules on warships is reduced, allowing you to actually play around with the fun new designer.
  
• Second, the IC and Time required to refit ships is reduced to a reasonable amount, such that using the refit feature is actually sensible now.

Simple radio upgrades for your battleship will no longer take 3 years...
The scale of costs in vanilla is all over the place, with no standard or method apparent.
This mod fixes that.

• Set cost of adding new module to ship design to 1 XP, down from 5 XP
  
• Set cost of upgrading module on ship design to 2 XP, down from 3 XP
  
• Set cost of changing module on ship design to 3 XP, down from 6 XP
  
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• Base IC cost for refitting reduced from 20% of ship IC, to 5% of ship IC
  
• Module cost < 999 - Same Category refit cost is 50%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 30%
  
• Module cost > 1000 - Same Category refit cost is 40%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 25%
  
• Engine cost < 999 - Same Category refit cost is 200%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 150%
  
• Engine cost > 1000 - Same Category refit cost is 100%, Direct Upgrade refit cost is 75%
  
• Armor dismantle costs cut by ~75%

Some Context:

• "Same Category" means any change that isn't a direct upgrade. For example, upgrading from a Cruiser Engine T1 to T3, or downgrading from T4 to T3, would both be considered "Same Category". Upgrading from T2 to T3 would be "Direct".
  
• 200% may seem like a lot for engines, but vanilla had this value set to 500% or higher in many cases.
  
• What the game calls "Armor dismantle costs", are really just "Armor Replacement" costs - whether its an upgrade or a downgrade. Vanilla had this value set anywhere from 4000 to 8000 IC, easily the cost of an entire heavy cruiser built from scratch! I don't know what the devs were smoking when they set these numbers but I want some.

This should be compatible with most mods, with the possible exception of Naval Rework Mods and Grand Overhaul mods. Let me know if you confirm a conflict.

Confirmed Compatible:
- Road to 56
- Kaiserreich
- Hearts of Oak
- MTG Expanded
- Old World Blues

Confirmed NOT-Compatible:
(these might be patchable but I don't have the time, try DIY)
- Black Ice
- Extended Tech Tree 1960
- Equestria at War
- The Great War
- The New Order


- Naval Ship Designer - Cheaper Ship Designer - Cheaper Modules - Cheaper Naval XP - Less XP -

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